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98041 Miraculous Powers, p. 26.4 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… , confiding faith that moves Omnipotence. Those only who have this faith may expect the manifestation of the gifts. Mark 2:5. “When Jesus saw their faith, he said …
98042 Miraculous Powers, p. 27.1 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… the faith.” These were Heaven’s appointed means to secure the unity of the church. Christ prayed that his people might be one, as he was one with his Father. Read …
98043 Miraculous Powers, p. 27.2 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… of faith and practice, yet reject the gifts, are not a whit better off. In these perilous times they shake to fragments, yet crying, the Bible! the Bible! We, too, would …
98044 Miraculous Powers, p. 28.1 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… of faith. To show that they cannot have their creeds and the gifts too, that creeds shut out the gifts, we will suppose that God, through chosen instruments taken …
98045 Miraculous Powers, p. 28.4 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… living faith led the church from the dark shades of error and formality to a clearer light, proves the necessity of the mind’s being well balanced with caution …
98046 Miraculous Powers, p. 31.1 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… knowledge,’ ‘faith,’ ‘gifts of healing,’ ‘prophecy,’ ‘discerning of spirits,’ etc. Now mark, these are all supernatural gifts of the Spirit. Not natural endowments, not …
98047 Miraculous Powers, p. 31.3 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… of ‘faith.’ 1 Corinthians 12:9. By faith here, the apostle evidently intends something more than justifying or sanctifying faith. He speaks of faith as a special …
98048 Miraculous Powers, p. 32.2 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… this faith, as cited by Paul. Hebrews 11:32-35. These instances, to be sure, are cited from the Old Testament, but if such power of faith was enjoyed by the ancient …
98049 Miraculous Powers, p. 34.1 (Merritt E. Cornell)
By a careful examination of history we find that miraculous powers have been manifested more or less, according to the faith and piety of the church in all ages.
98050 Miraculous Powers, p. 34.2 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… ancient faith grieve that Mormons and Spiritualists have professed faith in spiritual gifts. But shall we reject the true because of Satan’s counterfeit …
98051 Miraculous Powers, p. 36.3 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… that faith, prayer, the ordinance of baptism, or the gospel itself was to be perpetuated. Our Saviour declares (see Dr. Geo. Campbell’s translation) that “these …
98052 Miraculous Powers, p. 37.2 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”
98053 Miraculous Powers, p. 37.3 (Merritt E. Cornell)
These reasons are as applicable to the church now as ever. Profit, exhortation, comfort, and edification, are needed now. The necessity for preventing schisms, perfecting saints, and unity in the faith, was never greater than at the present time.
98054 Miraculous Powers, p. 38.1 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… the faith which was once delivered unto the saints,” they earnestly contend against it. If churches would really and truly take the Bible as their guide, being …
98055 Miraculous Powers, p. 39.2 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… reach. “Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to that alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries, It shall be done.”
98056 Miraculous Powers, p. 39.4 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… his faithful people; innumerable instances of which, especially with respect to recovery from sickness, may easily be produced. For instances, see the Arminian …
98057 Miraculous Powers, p. 40.2 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… , and faith, are mentioned. Will any deny that these last are still needed in the church? If not, they must admit that so much of what God set in the church is perpetuated …
98058 Miraculous Powers, p. 44.6 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… very faith mentioned in the preceding verse. Even at this day in every believer faith has a latent miraculous power (every effect of prayer being really miraculous …
98059 Miraculous Powers, p. 46.7 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… of faith. 1 Corinthians 12:9. By faith here, the apostle evidently intends, something more than justifying or sanctifying faith. He speaks of faith as a special …
98060 Miraculous Powers, p. 47.5 (Merritt E. Cornell)
… broader faith, and we shall then have no difficulty with special providences, or miracles, or prayer; but all their problems will be solved, and their mysteries …